Lab Alumni

All listed personnel were personally mentored by Roger Abounader for graduate thesis, medical school, and/or postdoctoral research.

PhD Thesis Research

Charles DiPierro (US Army; Researcher)

Barbara Merk (Assistant Professor)

Jungeun Kim (Postdoctoral fellow)

Napoleon Butler (Graduate student)

Christopher Papanicolas (NIH)

Dominic Maggio (Neurosurgery resident)

Myron Gibert (Current Student)

Collin Dube (Current Student)

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Yunqing Li (Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University)

Amandeep Salhotra (M.D. Medical fellow, NY University)

Fadila Guessous (Ph.D. Assistant Professor)

Ying Zhang (Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of Virginia)

Alexander Kofman (Adjunct Professor, St. Petersburg University, Russia)

Xiaoping Huang (Associate Professor, Sun Yat Sen University, China)

Baomin Wang

Nichola Cruickshanks

Aldo Nascimento

Elizabeth Mulcahy (Current Lab Member)

Medical School Fellows

Elizabeth Johnson (Resident, Duke University)

Dominic Maggio (Neurosurgery Fellow, NIH)

Rafael Vega (Assistant Professor, Neurosurgeon)

Other Alumni

All listed undergraduate, graduate, and medical students worked in Dr. Abounader’s laboratory and were mentored for periods varying from one summer month to more than three years)

Clare Nichols

Gisela Vargas

Yasmine Assadipour, (Surgeon)

Usha Saldana

Larry Sherman

Neela Dasgupta

Fanta Powell

Eric Kuchner

Manish Kumar

Tucker Mudrick (Anesthesiologist)

Opeyemi Ayotunde Ibidapo (MD)

Matthew Engelhard (MD)

Lukasz Marcinkiewicz, (Medical student)

Kaitlyn Farenholz

Jeffrey Hatef, (Neurosurgeon)

Yanzhi Yang, (Medical student)

Alessia Catania, (MD)

Simon Heister, (MD)

Evan Dupart

Elaine Oblitey, (MD)

So Yeon Park

Jan Hachmann, (MD)

Samantha Dodbele, (Graduate student)

Chris Leston

Stephanie Le Graverend, (MD)

Kaitlyn Marks

Susan Dhamala

Matthew Smith

Thomas Park

YeBin Kim

Jacqueline Donovan

April Hyon, (Medical student)

Nicole Pham

Saidu Ngulde (PhD)

Marie Groneberg

Matthew Zelig (Medical student)

Sarah Hatef (Medical student)

Ciana Deveau (Postbac)

Karim Saoud (Postbac)

Madison Oxford (Undergraduate student)

Initha Setiady (Undergraduate student)

Fang Yuan, (Medical Student)

Mary Pahuski

Eric Devairakkam (Undergraduate student)

Samantha Kunkel (Undergraduate student)

Nikita Thakur (Undergraduate student)

Maeve Coughlan (Undergraduate student)

PhD Rotation students:

Rorey Goodwin (Johns Hopkins University)

Eric Kuchner (Johns Hopkins University)

Jungeun Kim (University of Virginia)

Billy Nash (University of Virginia)

Awndre Gamache (University of Virginia)

Sydney Webb (University of Virginia)

Napoleon Butler (University of Virginia)

Aldo Nascimento (University of Virginia)

Jeff Xing (University of Virginia)

Yen Nguyen (University of Virginia)

Jordan Aragorn (University of Virginia)

Katherine Hoffman (University of Virginia)

Lab Alumni

PhD Thesis Research

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Medical School Fellows

Other Alumni

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OTHER

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